TABLE 3.
Oral reading and spelling.
| Tests | Subject D’s scores (proportion) | Performance descriptor | Normative data1 |
| Oral Reading | |||
| Oral Reading: Letter Length (PALPA 29) | 24 (1.0) | A | 23.95 ± 0.21 |
| Oral Reading: Imag x Freq (PALPA 31) | |||
| High imageability-High frequency (n = 20) | 20 (1.0) | A | 19.95 ± 0.21 |
| High imageability-Low frequency (n = 20) | 19 (0.95) | SBA | 19.95 ± 0.21 |
| Low imageability-High frequency (n = 20) | 20 (1.0) | A | 19.95 ± 0.29 |
| Low imageability-Low frequency (n = 20) | 20 (1.0) | A | 19.68 ± 0.55 |
| Oral Reading: Grammatical Class (n = 40) (PALPA 32) | |||
| Nouns (n = 20) | 19 (0.95) | SBA | 19.95 ± 0.21 |
| Adjectives (n = 20) | 20 (1.0) | A | 19.86 ± 0.34 |
| Verbs (n = 20) | 20 (1.0) | A | 19.95 ± 0.21 |
| Functional Words (n = 20) | 19 (0.95) | A | 19.77 ± 0.42 |
| Oral Reading: Grammatical Class x Imag (n = 40) (PALPA 33) | |||
| Nouns (n = 20) | 19 (0.95) | SBA | 19.91 ± 0.29 |
| Functional Words (n = 20) | 19 (0.95) | SBA | 20.00 ± 0.00 |
| Oral Reading: Morphological Endings (PALPA 34) | |||
| Regular Words (n = 30) | 27 (0.90) | A | 29.54 ± 1.30 |
| Irregular Words (n = 30) | 14 (0.53) | SBA | 26.36 ± 5.84 |
| Oral Reading: Non-words (PALPA 36) (n = 24) | 22 (0.92) | A | 23.22 ± 0,69 |
| Spelling | |||
| Spelling to Dictation: Letter Length (PALPA 39) (n = 24) | 24 (1.0) | A | 23.8 ± 0.23 |
| Spelling to Dictation: Grammatical Class (PALPA 41) | |||
| Nouns (n = 5) | 5 | A | 4.68 ± 0.55 |
| Adjectives (n = 5) | 5 | A | 4.91 ± 0.29 |
| Verbs (n = 5) | 5 | A | 4.91 ± 0.29 |
| Functional Words (n = 5) | 4 | A | 4.77 ± 0.52 |
| Spelling to Dictation: Grammatical Class x Imag (PALPA 42) | 9 (0.90) | A | 9.73 ± 0.67 |
| Nouns (n = 10) | 8 (0.80) | SBA | 9.82 ± 0.49 |
| Functional Words (n = 10) | |||
| Spelling to Dictation: Non-words (PALPA 45) (n = 24) | 24 (1.0) | A | 22.54 ± 0.76 |
All test are from PALPA unless specified; 1Normative data from Valle and Cuetos (1995). The “performance descriptors” have been obtained by comparison with normative data as follows: A indicates average, SBA slightly below average, and BA below average (see further details in text).